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J.I.D Gets Political in Video For “Never”

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J.I.D isn’t afraid of politics.

In his latest video for his song, ‘Never’, the track starts rolling with a close-up of J.I.D being pressed against the hood of a police car before being robbed, beaten, and left in the street.

The scene later becomes a bit more endearing: shots of him, surrounded, presumably by his family, breaking bread at a dinner table. When more police offers come to raid his house/arrest him, the color of the previous scene literally fades to black and white. After escaping, the police find him again, only to narrowly chase him down in a car and grab him by his shirt in the final shot. While moral ambiguities surround the video, it brings back hip-hop and rap as the original art of social protest.